Open space system and science parks

This article presents a possible connection between the so-called Technology or Science Parks and the disciplinary field of Landscape Architecture. These knowledge areas have been committed to planning and designing sustainable and resilient places in contemporary times. Because science parks can also be instruments for creating urban space, they are intended to relate these concepts to the strategic key of landscape architecture, the open space system. Landscape involves not only formalizing ecosystems but also its capacity to deal with the complexity of the territory. In this context, the role of open spaces as a system is used as parameters for analysis, potential categorization, and valuation. The methodological strategy for building analysis parameters took as the first example the Science Park Sophia Antipolis, located on the French Riviera and considered the first Science Park in Europe. The second example was the HIDS, the International Hub for Sustainable Development, located in Campinas on the rural-urban fringe between two universities, UNICAMP and PUC-Campinas. Although this proposal of relationship is in the initial phase, the observation of these case studies is strategic once they reveal the intention of producing a design innovative and engaged with aspects of Landscape, providing references for new forms of Brazilian urban planning that can overcome environmental problems created by traditional methods and their consequences.